mullattoes

Updated: June 24, 2025

As I have said, nothing but slavery, and the perverse habits that it engenders, could have succeeded in some sort in breaking down this barrier. If the class of mullattoes thus formed rule in some republics of South America, it proceeds from the absence of a numerous and powerful white race, like that which is covering the United States with its continually increasing population.

comte de Agénor Gasparin - The Uprising of a Great People: The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States.